Studies of 3-amino-4-hydroxyl benzoic acid phosphate

3-amino-4-hydroxyl benzoic acid phosphate was synthesized from 4-chloro benzoic acid through three steps, the whole process was cost-effective in which the materials in each step were reused. More importantly, phosphoric acid medium did no harm to Pd-C catalyst in the hydrogenation and the Pd-C catalyst could be recycled for ten times at least without decrease in catalytic activity. In addition, product could meet the requirement of polymerization reaction of producing poly(2,5-benzoxazole) without dehydrochlorogenation. In this process, good conversion, high overall yield (79.28%) and high purity (99.30% by HPLC) were achieved. (author)